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"On this day in 1776 an impromptu rebel flotilla takes on a small fleet of British warships at the Battle of Valcour Island. Fought several hundred miles inland on Lake Champlain it's the first engagement of the nascent U.S. Navy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1976955182731657244) [@MilHistNow](/creator/x/MilHistNow) 2025-10-11T10:17Z 197.7K followers, 11.3K engagements


"The fictional Flower-class corvette HMS Compass Rose (K49) that appeared in the 1953 film 'The Cruel Sea' was actually the real-life warship HMSCoreopsis. The vessel which served as a convoy escort in the Second World War was scrapped shortly after filming these scenes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1973694698519687419) [@MilHistNow](/creator/x/MilHistNow) 2025-10-02T10:21Z 197.7K followers, 117.6K engagements


"On this day in 1571 the combined navies of Spain and Venice deal a decisive defeat to the Ottoman fleet at the Battle of Lepanto. It marks the last major sea battle in history fought by oar-powered galleys"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1975429881811873932) [@MilHistNow](/creator/x/MilHistNow) 2025-10-07T05:16Z 197.7K followers, 19.1K engagements


"On this day in 1780 XXX Rebels defeat an army of Tory militia at the Battle of King's Mountain South Carolina. It's remembered as the largest engagement of the Revolutionary War fought entirely by American forces"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1975503869464703140) [@MilHistNow](/creator/x/MilHistNow) 2025-10-07T10:10Z 197.7K followers, 20.9K engagements


"On this day in 1777 Continental troops defeat the British at the 2nd Battle of Saratoga. "The courage and obstinacy with which the Americans fought astonished everyone" wrote one redcoat officer. The victory prompts France to recognize and support the burgeoning United States"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1975504372848058771) [@MilHistNow](/creator/x/MilHistNow) 2025-10-07T10:12Z 197.7K followers, 12.9K engagements


"Today in 1862 authorities in Texas hand XX jailed pro-Union citizens over to a mob to be hanged. More than XX will eventually be put to death for treason many without trial. The Great Hanging of Gainesville is remembered as one of the worst acts of mob violence in U.S. history"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1977316060425490525) [@MilHistNow](/creator/x/MilHistNow) 2025-10-12T10:11Z 197.7K followers, 26.6K engagements


"A newsreel from 1921 showing joint U.S. Army-Navy bombing runs on the captured WWI German battleship Ostfriesland. After two days of areal attacks fail to sink the vessel General Billy Mitchell violates the rules-of-engagement and orders 2000-pound bombs dropped on the ship"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1973073857805205566) [@MilHistNow](/creator/x/MilHistNow) 2025-09-30T17:14Z 197.7K followers, 58.9K engagements


"Today in 2023 Hamas terrorists launch a massive surprise attack on Israel killing 1200 and taking XXX hostages. Israel responds with air strikes & ground operations that level much of Gaza leaving tens of thousands dead. Raids on Yemen Lebanon Iran and Qatar will follow"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1975425857935327344) [@MilHistNow](/creator/x/MilHistNow) 2025-10-07T05:00Z 197.7K followers, 63K engagements


"On this day in 2001 U.S. warplanes carry out the opening strikes of what will become a 19-year military campaign against the Taliban in Afghanistan. America's 'Global War on Terror' will soon expand into Pakistan Iraq Yemen Syria and elsewhere"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1975501604838097075) [@MilHistNow](/creator/x/MilHistNow) 2025-10-07T10:01Z 197.7K followers, 13.4K engagements


"Today in 1916 the German submarine U-53 sinks three British cargo vessels off Nantucket. Neutral American warships nearby watch the attack but do not intervene. Just the day before U-53 visited Newport Rhode Island where its captain mingled with US Navy officers in the area"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1975863237519519936) [@MilHistNow](/creator/x/MilHistNow) 2025-10-08T09:58Z 197.7K followers, 14K engagements


"Today in XXX the Frankish leader Charles Martel turns back a Muslim army at the Battle of Tours (aka the Battle of Poitiers). The victory halts the Umayyad march from Spain into Western Europe and will go on to be celebrated for saving European Christendom from Islamic conquest"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1976514277491257563) [@MilHistNow](/creator/x/MilHistNow) 2025-10-10T05:05Z 197.7K followers, 16.5K engagements


"On this day in 1986 the Cold War seems to be thawing as U.S. president Ronald Reagan and Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Reykjavk Iceland to talk nuclear disarmament. Although negotiations break down the summit lays the groundwork for future arms control agreements"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1976953421430505719) [@MilHistNow](/creator/x/MilHistNow) 2025-10-11T10:10Z 197.7K followers, 9899 engagements


"Today in 1900 the U.S. Navy commissions its first modern submarine the USS Holland (SS-1). With a crew of six it can dive to a maximum depth of XX feet. It'll be decommissioned in 1905 and later exhibited in various museums until 1932 when it's broken up and sold for scrap"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1977313544392597658) [@MilHistNow](/creator/x/MilHistNow) 2025-10-12T10:01Z 197.7K followers, 46.5K engagements


"On this day in 1943 the Kingdom of Italy which surrendered unconditionally to the Allies in September officially joins the alliance and declares war on Nazi Germany"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1977600937867788338) [@MilHistNow](/creator/x/MilHistNow) 2025-10-13T05:03Z 197.7K followers, 18K engagements


"Today in 1943 the U.S. 8th Air Force loses a staggering XX B-17s in a daylight raid on Schweinfurt Germany. Nearly XXX airmen are killed. The heavy losses force commanders of America's strategic bomber force to change their tactics. See how at"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1978040332827934958) [@MilHistNow](/creator/x/MilHistNow) 2025-10-14T10:09Z 197.7K followers, 10.3K engagements


"Today in 1947 Chuck Yeager officially breaks the sound barrier when his Bell X-1 rocket plane hits Mach XXXX (671 mph). The Second World War ace completes the feat while flying 45000 feet above California's Muroc Air Force Base (today known as Edwards Air Force Base)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1978041591169438082) [@MilHistNow](/creator/x/MilHistNow) 2025-10-14T10:14Z 197.7K followers, 19K engagements


"Why do today's history documentaries look so ridiculous"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1978253311942754730) [@MilHistNow](/creator/x/MilHistNow) 2025-10-15T00:15Z 197.7K followers, 12.9K engagements


"On this day in 1917 the legendary burlesque performer and spy Mata Hari (aka Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod) is executed by France for espionage. She reportedly wears a tricorne hat and blows a kiss to her firing squad before being shot. Read about it:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1978442231012040883) [@MilHistNow](/creator/x/MilHistNow) 2025-10-15T12:46Z 197.7K followers, 6620 engagements


"Today in 1940 Charlie Chaplin's satirical send-up of Adolf Hitler 'The Great Dictator' premieres in New York. His first non-silent or 'talkie' film the comedian mixes humour and pathos to criticize dictatorships and anti-Semitism while defending democratic values"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1978443239700025498) [@MilHistNow](/creator/x/MilHistNow) 2025-10-15T12:50Z 197.7K followers, 6439 engagements


"On this day in 1970 Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act to combat FLQ terrorists in Quebec. When asked by a reporter how far he's prepared to go to maintain law and order he famously replies: "Just watch me.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1978446258898407647) [@MilHistNow](/creator/x/MilHistNow) 2025-10-15T13:02Z 197.7K followers, 9674 engagements


"Target Berlin Inside the Little-Known Soviet Bomber Raids on the German Capital "It wasnt just the British and American air forces that bombed the German capital; Soviet warplanes took the fight to Hitlers doorstep as well." See:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1978449070533255534) [@MilHistNow](/creator/x/MilHistNow) 2025-10-15T13:13Z 197.7K followers, 5980 engagements


"Soviet 'Katyusha' mobile rocket launchers weren't particularly accurate but within seven seconds a battery of four could send XXX tons of high explosives towards a target up to five miles away. Turn the sound on to hear why the Germans nicknamed it "Stalin's Organ." 🔊"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1978564163262726375) [@MilHistNow](/creator/x/MilHistNow) 2025-10-15T20:50Z 197.7K followers, 25.1K engagements


"Some pretty stunning footage of Allied Douglas A-20 bombers flying dangerously low to avoid detection dashing across the English Channel at Dover to hit a target in Nazi-occupied France. (Clipped from a 1943 newsreel)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1978616829447692717) [@MilHistNow](/creator/x/MilHistNow) 2025-10-16T00:19Z 197.7K followers, 93.1K engagements


"On this day in 1813 Napoleon takes on six massive armies at Leipzig. With nearly 600000 soldiers engaged it will be the largest battle ever fought in Europe until the First World War. Bonaparte is defeated"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1978688604764327957) [@MilHistNow](/creator/x/MilHistNow) 2025-10-16T05:05Z 197.7K followers, 20.5K engagements


"On this day in 1962 President Kennedy is informed by U.S. intelligence of the presence of Soviet nuclear missiles on Cuban soil. The discovery precipitates a 13-day crisis between Washington and Moscow that very nearly leads to WW3"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1978763347752534281) [@MilHistNow](/creator/x/MilHistNow) 2025-10-16T10:02Z 197.7K followers, 14.6K engagements


"Today in 1859 John Brown and XX abolitionists raid an arsenal at Harpers Ferry Virginia in hopes of mounting an armed slave rebellion. Federal troops commanded by Robert E Lee recapture the magazine. Brown will later hang for treason. More here:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1978765612148285835) [@MilHistNow](/creator/x/MilHistNow) 2025-10-16T10:11Z 197.7K followers, 9485 engagements


"A tank crew with the U.S. Army's 125th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron shows off one hell of a war souvenir: a captured German Panther tank. Griebo Germany. April XX 1945"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1978886253777990127) [@MilHistNow](/creator/x/MilHistNow) 2025-10-16T18:10Z 197.7K followers, 56.5K engagements


"Betty Grable "the girl with the million dollar legs" was the most popular pin-up model of World War II. This iconic shot of the Hollywood starlet taken in 1943 by Frank Powolny became a favourite among G.I.s stationed overseas"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1978962911998746807) [@MilHistNow](/creator/x/MilHistNow) 2025-10-16T23:15Z 197.7K followers, 10.1K engagements


"On this day in 1777 British general John Burgoyne surrenders his army following the defeat at Saratoga. His military career in tatters "Gentleman Johnny" will go on to become a successful London playwright"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1979051495481053613) [@MilHistNow](/creator/x/MilHistNow) 2025-10-17T05:07Z 197.7K followers, 13.3K engagements


"Today in 1941 the German submarine U-568 torpedoes the still officially neutral American destroyer USS Kearny off Iceland. The U.S. vessel is providing protection to a British and Canadian convoy when it is targeted and struck. Eleven sailors die in the attack"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1979126993225687452) [@MilHistNow](/creator/x/MilHistNow) 2025-10-17T10:07Z 197.7K followers, 13K engagements


"You're looking at footage taken from a camera strapped to the chest of 101st Airborne pathfinder Capt. Frank Lillyman during a training jump in March 1944. The 29-year-old would later go on to be the first American paratrooper to land in France on D-Day"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1979132026264461557) [@MilHistNow](/creator/x/MilHistNow) 2025-10-17T10:27Z 197.7K followers, 41.6K engagements


"Today in 1944 the Nazis give the late Erwin Rommel a lavish state funeral. Although the famed 'Desert Fox' chose to take poison after being implicated in the failed July XX bomb plot against Hitler propagandists opt to make the popular field marshal out to be a national hero"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1979409857699877072) [@MilHistNow](/creator/x/MilHistNow) 2025-10-18T04:51Z 197.7K followers, 39.9K engagements


"Two F-14 Tomcats from the USS Nimitz mix it up with a couple of Mitsubishi Zeroes in the 1980 sci-fi movie 'The Final Countdown.' The film imagines the nuclear powered aircraft carrier being hurtled back in time to the eve of Pearl Harbor. Any fans"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1979719885912715492) [@MilHistNow](/creator/x/MilHistNow) 2025-10-19T01:22Z 197.7K followers, 59K engagements


"Today in 1812 Napoleon's Grande Arme abandons Moscow and begins what will become a hellish two-month retreat from Russia. More than 650000 troops invaded the country in June; by December fewer than 100000 remain. Combat disease famine and bitter cold claim the most lives"  
[X Link](https://x.com/MilHistNow/status/1979776774658732403) [@MilHistNow](/creator/x/MilHistNow) 2025-10-19T05:09Z 197.7K followers, 10.2K engagements